Is America in Decline?

by | Dec 2, 2010 | The Public Humanist

In a lengthy and widely cited cover story for theJanuary/February 2010 issue of The Atlantic magazine that serves as the conceptual framework for Mass Humanities’ seventh annual fall symposium and is paradoxically entitled “How America Can Rise...
Wellness: In Defense of Waiting

Wellness: In Defense of Waiting

by | Dec 2, 2010 | Wellness

Can an ordinary sea sponge cure prostate cancer? That is the hope of Dr. Marianne Sadar, scientist with the BC Cancer Agency in Vancouver. In recent tests, she has been able to shrink cancer tumors in mice with an experimental drug adapted from a sponge found off the...
StageStruck: Indomitable Spirit

StageStruck: Indomitable Spirit

by | Dec 2, 2010 | Stage

Enchanted Circle Theater, the Holyoke-based educational theater company, performed its latest play recently in the Roxbury section of Boston. “It was a love fest,” reports Priscilla Kane Hellweg, the troupe’s artistic director. The mostly...
StageStruck: Art for Life

StageStruck: Art for Life

by | Dec 2, 2010 | Stage

TheaterWorks, which calls itself “Hartford’s Off-Broadway,” celebrates its 25th anniversary this month. Over a quarter century, this little arts engine that could has made its basement theater an essential venue and transformed the historic Art Deco...